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UNITED sm ms WILLIAM HALL, OF MARION, OREGON.

LOCK FOR IVIILK-CAN LIDS.

Specficaton of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14:, 1907.

Application filed August 4,1966. Serial No. 329,210.

.To Coll whom it may conuern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HALL, a Citizen of the United States,residing at Marion, in the oonnty of Marion and State of Oregon, haveinvented new and Useful Improvements in Looks for Milk-Qan Lids, ofwhich the following is a speoifioation.

This invention is a lock for r'f'i'ilk can'lids or stoppers, and has forits object to provide a*- simple, cheap and eflioient device of thiskind which ean be readily applied to any ordinary milk-oan, and whichoan be easily operated.

In the acoompanying drawing Figure 1 is an elevation of the inventionshowing the application thereof. Fig. 2 is a Vertical seo- Fig. 3 is anelevation showing the invention in unlooked position. Fig. 4 is anelevation showing the manner in which the lid or stopper is supportedwhen removed from the oan.

Referring speeifically to the drawing, 10 denotes a milk-can; and 11,the neek thereof which reeeives the lid or stopper 12 at a close Theneek is flared at 13 as nsnal, and the lid is shaped acoordingly.

The neck and lid have openings 14 and 15 which, when brought intoregistering position receive a bolt 16 having at one end a head 17, andat the other end a transverse opening 18 to receive the looking deviceto be hereinafter described.

The looking device eomprises a single piece of wire which is extendedthrough the opening 18, and is doubled or bent as at 19 to form twosnbstantially parallel members 20 and 21, respectively, which are bentinto the an gular shape shown. The free ends of the members 20 and 21are bent into eyes 22 which receive a ring 23.

In looking position, the member 20 eX tends transversely through theopening 18 in the bolt, and on opposite sides thereof on the outside ofthe oan-neck. With the wire in this position the bolt cannot bewithdrawn from the openings 14 and 15, and the lid is therefore Securelylooked to the oan-neek. To remove the lid, the member 20 is slidforwardly through the opening 18 until the part 19 eXtends 'therethroughThe wire can then be turned to bring it in alinement with the boltwhioh'oan then be withdrawn from the openings to release the lid andpermit its removal from the can. The wire will also be drawn through theopenings, and the lid can be snspended therefrom to hang on the outsideof the oan as shown in Fig. 1. The openings are large enough to take thewire, and it .is prevented from bein 'withdrawn therefrom by the ring23. T e wire also affords convenient means for supporting a shipping"tag 24: as shown. A

'The device herein desoribed oan be readily applied to any ordinary milkean, and it is simple in constrnction and can therefore be cheaplyproduced. It can be easily operated, and effeotively serves the purposefor which it is intended.

,1. The combination with a oan and its lid, said lid and the neok of theoan having registering openings, of a bolt eXtending through theopenings, and having at one en'd a transverse opening, and a lookingdevioe comprising a piece of wire which is doubled to form twosnbstantially parallel members, one of which eXtends through the openingin the bolt and on opposite' sides thereof, and is eX- tensible intoaXial alinement with the bolt to permit its withdrawal.

2. The *combination with a can and its lid, said lid and the neck of theoan having registering openings, of a bolt eXtending through theopenings, and having at one end a transverse opening, and a lookingdeviee oomprising a piece of wire which is doubled to form twosubstantially parallel members, one of which eXtends through the openingin the bolt, and is eXtensible into aXial alinement therewith to permitits withdrawal, and a retaining member on the free ends of the aforesaidmembers.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speoifioation in thepresence of two snbsoribing witnesses. v

WILLIAM HALL.

Witnesses:

A. L. BROWN, EFFIE M. BARBER.

